The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0394 Thursday, 23 July 2009
From: John Chapot <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 22 Jul 2009 13:50:59 -0700
Subject: WS View of Vienna for M4M
My wife has just completed costuming a new production of _Measure for
Measure_ for the reinvigorated Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. While
reading the play, I found myself wondering what moved the playwright to
locate the action in Vienna. The play doesn't appear to have any
location-specific details. To me, it amounts to Elizabethan London.
I wonder what was the Elizabethan concept of this distant Catholic city
at the edge of the Ottoman Empire? Or did W.S. use it because it was
terra incognita?
John Chapot
San Francisco
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